Hi I put a Powerleap Celeron processor in a old Deskpro EX 350 and it works perfectly but I have the following error at boot : "918 - The current processor is not supported." (or something like that) I looked at Powerleap faqs and they say that bios may need an upgrade, however I have the most...

First one froze right out the box. Took back, 2nd run for about 2 months, started slowing down, now freezing randomly. Stops responding, but hard drive is spinning? No viruses or ad ware (hijackers). Disappointed, Asus board. Memtest turns up no errors. Runs slower than PII 300a.

My Presario 1250 laptop is - for lack of a more technical word - lazy. The response time to keyboard and mouse events is sometimes perfectly good, and sometimes horrible. I put the cursor over "File" in some arbitrary program, and the click button appears, but sometimes, there is no response for...

I have not been able to solve this problem yet. Would be grateful for any advice, please. Thanks Sam

During a boot up(win98)..I received a message O S not found..Bestbuy did a diagnostic check and told me that compaq does not load a full System restore on the single restore disk(oem)..They tell me it is a 2 disk set?? My restore disk when installed comes up in spanish..Says something about...

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Hi I'm trying to resurrect an old Armada M700. Got everything working fine except MODEM and NIC. Can't work out which drivers I need. The card has a ref of U98.003.C.00 which I think is a combo MODEM/NIC with Lucent & Intel chipsets.

Still looking for Restore CD's for a Presario 1200-XL 110 Laptop. Can anyone help me ? John

I have 2 Compaq computers (desktop & laptop) the DVD players usually work fine. Occasionally when I try & play a DVD I get an error message saying no compatible DVD player is found. It does it on either machine but plays fine on a stand alone DVD player. Some main stream movies have done this. ...

I have a Compaq Presario 5BW160. I started having itermittant reboots that gradually became more and more frequent until now it wont boot at all. I've scanned for viruses.(none) It will go through boot up until it loads windows, then reboot? I can bootup from XP disc. I have tried new hard drive,...

(win98) During boot up i Received a message OS Not found (Compaq 5002us) I had a diagnostic run , and was told My restore disk will not work (comes up in spanish)..I was also told that compaq does not ship a entire restore disk with this comp..That i will need a 2 disk set , Because i have a...

I have a customer that has an iPAQ legacy-free PC v1.0, Intel P3-500 256MB RAM, etc. It's almost impossible to find anything about this computer thanks to the stupid handheld and internet appliances of the same name(s). I need to know the max CPU (or what other CPU's it can take) max memory and...

I have a have Presario X1370US laptop. The FSB is set at 400Mhz. The memory is PC 2700 which is designed for a 333MhZ FSB. I would have expected PC3200 ram? Anybody got an idea on this? --L

I got a Compaq Presario 1725S monitor from somewhere with no manual. It seems to have a built-in microphone. And there is also a control knob for sound. What I don't understand is why the monitor cable has no extra cord attached to it that would be for the microphone usage. Also there is a hole in...

SHOCK- THIS ONE ACTUALLY WORKS!! HOW TO MAKE MONEY QUICKLY AND LEGALY Earn money honest and fairly HOW TO TURN £3 INTO £6000 OR MUCH MORE!!! IT REALLY WORKS. I found this on a bulletin board and decided to try it. A little while back, I was browsing through various newsgroups, just like you are...

The Control Panel's Device Manager says the USB on my Compaq Presario 5000T is Intel 82801BA/BAM. I tried searching this with Google but can't find the matching USB version number. I wish to purchase a USB flash memory storage unit but need to know the USB version to be sure it's supported. Can...

Hi Everyone, My Compaq Presario 1701AP Notebook has a 30GB Toshiba MK3017GAP HDD and came with Win ME 4.90.3000 pre-installed. When I tried to use this HDD as a USB mass storage device in a 2.5" HD External Case (USB to IDE case), the drive is not recognized by a host system using Win XP Pro....

I understand that the Compaq Deskpro 6400 series with the BX440 chipset motherboard only take up to a 500MHz processor. Does anyone know if this limit is imposed by the bios? Are there earlier bioses, as on some Dell systems, where such limitations weren't put in place and where higher speed...

Hi, I have transplanted the Compaq PC into a tower case. Now the only problem I have is that I don't know where to connect the power switch lead on the motherboard. There doesn't appear to be any sort of indication on the mobo itself and I've Googled for a while now and have come up with...

Have been given a laptop to 'look' at by a relative who suspects his daughter may have dropped it though there is no obvious outward sign of damage. Appears to boot OK but screen is blank. Adding an external monitor confirms that it seems to run OK. However, I have also noticed if machine is tilted...